Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-09-04

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A GOssipy Letter-"On the FLY
Meets Some OLD Eurekans-Th,
General Appearance OF the Caml
buildings. Furnaces, Etc.
BUTTE Cry. Sept. 1, 1887.
EDITOR SENTINEL: According to prom
Use, l now write a few items that may per
haps be of some interest to the many read
ers OF your valuable paper. Having had
so little experience in the role OF a news
paper correspondent, il is with considers.
Bile hesitation and many misgivings that ]
begin the undertaking; but your invita-.
ton to WRITE" so kindly rendered, is de-
serving an attempt on my part; SO, asking
charity, I proceed.
Butte Is not only a booming mining
camp, but q fu~ll.fedged, thriving city. A
glance into any of the large business
houses would convince you Of the general
prosperity Of the country. The public
buildings, Courthouse, schoolhouse, etc.,
are all we'll built handsome buildings and
an honor to the community. There are
many private dwellings here fit to grace
any city, east or west; that of W. A. Clark
is especially noticeable. The Grand Opera
House, built on the plan Of the Baldwin
OF San Francisco, is as neat and pretty o
theater as one cares TO visit. The city is
well illuminated with electric lights, also
many OF the mills and furnaces. A COM
plete system of street railway is being con-
structed. 1t will be completed within three
months. A cable line ia soon to be laid,
extending TO Waikerville, a distance of
two and one-half miles. Two lines OF
overland roads are being constructed
through the city. and the Union Pacific
Company Is building tracks connecting
the principal mines and furnaces in and
about Butte.
No one need suffer for muse ment here.
Several large and comfortable music halls,
the theater. race track, picnic and shoot
ing grounds, all go to furnish amusement
and recreation for the unocoupied.
Eureka's ex-Sheriff, VIM. Stinsou, and
his son Andy, have already gained the rep
utation of being experts with both shot
gun and rife. II the Eureka Gun Club
should ever shoot a match with the Butte
team, I am sure the Eureka boys would
be fsvorites with the candy-and-glove bet
tiers, but that they would sell first in the
pools l am not 80 we'll satisfied. II is
likewise with the Clipper Baseball Club.
They are very cute and the like. but hardly
heavy enough for the clubs here.
Andy Stinson was beaten in the 100
yard race at the Miners Union picnic last
Sunday. The race was run in trial heats,
and Andy fell a little short In the first
heat, but an amateur from Nevada, calling
himself Frank Harrison, managed to win
she final heat and race with Andy's oppo-
nent second best.
Butte evidently has lite share of the un.
godly, and the liquor business, from ex-
ternsl appearances. seems lively, but there
is no need to write OF this to those who
are familiar with the flush times on the
Comstock or Of Eureka.
The dishing up given to one OF Eureks's
executors by the New York Engineering
and Mining Journal in a recent issue ia
attracting considerable notice and com.
mentI in newspaper circles here.
In Butte and vicinity there are about
ten furnaces and mills in full blast be-
sides those at Anaconda, and one other is
soon to be constructed that will be as
large il not larger than any yet built.
| do not know il the professions are al
ready crowded here or not. / do not
know il there is work to be had for the
laboring man should he come here, but l
do know that the town has every appear
snce OF prosperity. and that every one
seems to have something TO do.
The Salvation Army has struck the
tow with song and cymbal, and Barretts
great three rings, etc., showed last Mon
day; so you can judge for yourself the
state oil mind Of the small boy.
II I have written concerning the place
nothing but that which you already knew.
excuse the fault, for il was with great Ia
Dor that I learned what l have. My only
way for gaining information has been to
conquer my overwhelming modesty and
ask-conquering the modesty being the
great labor referred to. Yours truly,
Ou TIVE FRY.